Who is the scientist-subject? : affective history of the gene / by Esha Shah.

Shah, Esha,
Who is the scientist-subject? :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780429953163 (e-book: Mobi)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
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Yayın Bilgisi
Boca Raton, FL : Routledge India, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (186 pages).
Dizi
Science and technology studies
İçindekiler Notu
chapter 1 Introduction -- Affective history of the gene / Esha Shah -- chapter 2 Who is the Scientist-Subject? -- A critique of the neo-Kantian scientist-subject in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison’s Objectivity 1 / Esha Shah -- chapter 3 Immortality Ideologies and the Particulate Gene / H. J. Muller -- chapter 4 What is Life? Placed in Erwin Schrödinger’s life / Esha Shah -- chapter 5 The Myth and Truth of Barbara McClintock 1 / Esha Shah -- chapter 6 Rosalind Franklin and her Science-in-the-Making -- A situated, sexual, and existential portrait 1 / Esha Shah -- chapter 7 The Ultra-Contemporary Self and Hyper-Reductionism of Human Genome Science / Craig Venter -- chapter 8 Conclusion / Esha Shah.
Özet, vb.
This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self –that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined, self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by social and scientific ethos –in favour of a narrative that shows how the microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted, questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the scientist-subject.
Konu
PHILOSOPHY / Political. __ bisacsh
SCIENCE / History. __ bisacsh
Ethnology.
Life sciences __ Philosophy.
Philosophy of mind.
Political science __ Philosophy.
Science __ Philosophy.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology. __ bisacsh
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